The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-27
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

THINGS TERRITORIAL.
Mike Meyendorff has been elected pres
ident of the Helena baseball league.
Henry Yergy who died at Helena, a
fortnight ago, left his wife and son prop
erty to the value of $4,000.
A Northern Pacific train ran into
band OF deer in Hellgate canyon last FRI
dav and killed four of them.
1t is estimated that it will take $780,
900 worth of powder to do the blasting
on the big tunnel on the Butte extension
of the Montana Central.
Northern Pacific survey parties are in
the field for the purpose of locating the
balaace of the Helena, Boulder Valley &
Butte line from Boulder to Butte.
The Dillon military company has or.
ganized with thirty. seven members. d.
Lamont is captain. r. J. Moore lst lieut.
enant, and w. H. Smead I'd lieutenant.
Winding carriage drives are to be
made on the side OF Mount Helena so
that the capital city people can easily as
cend to its summit (6,OOO feet above sea
level.) Nothing is too high for Helena.
Austin Merrill, a well.known Missoula
prospector, was killed last Friday by the
accidental discharge of his revolver. 1t
fell out of his scabbard while he was
stopping to drink from stream.
Three young men of Benton were ar
rested last week and taken before the
police magistrate for disturbing the peace
by stufiing suit of clothes and placing
the dummy on 9 public stairway. One
was fined 81 and costs, and the others
had the trial postponed.
Grizzly Bear and Ivory, Piegan In
dams, were convicted before Judge Bach
at Lewiston last week for stealing horses
in the Judith country last year. Five
were arrested at the time, but three of
them escaped from the guard house at
Fort Shaw last November,
Another civil suit has been instituted
by the United States against the Mon
tana Improvement Company In the court
Of this district for cutting timber on u.
s. lands along the Northern Pacific rail
road west of Deer Lodge and the amount
of damages laid atS471 ,O0O.-New North
west.
The knights of Labor of this place
have purchased a lot in the new cemetery
for the burial place ofsuch of their mem
bers as may die. The body of the en-
gineer, Michael Reach, who was killed in
the tea train wreck in the fall of 1885,
was taken up this week and re-interred
in this lot. t.--Missoulian.
A proclamation by Governor Leslie,
offers total reward Of 81 100 for four
noted convicts who have escaped during
the past few years. Scott murdered a
man in Butte by stabbing. Towsley was
also Butte convict. Bell was notori-
Gus convict of eastern Montana. Thorn
as Murphy was lesser criminal. He
managed to make his escape about a
year ago. He stole horse and after
some weeks rode down the Prickley Pear
and the Missouri and is believed to have
escaped to the British possessions.
Major John E. Blaine, paymaster,
(brother of ex.Secretary Blaine) died at
the Hot Springs Arkansas last week.
Major Blaine, was for long time resi-
dent Of Helena His health had long
been bad and he went to the Army and
Navy hospital at Arkansas Hot Springs
for treatment. His malady was paralysis,
oi which he probabley died. He married
Miss Fenlon of Levenworth, Kansas,
who with one son and two daughters;
survive him.
On Saturday last the body Of the eldest
daughter of Mrs. Philip Thorpe was re-
ceived in this city, from the former home
Of the family in Gallatin county, where
she died some nine years ago, and now
her remains are in their final resting
place beside her father in the graveyard
up the river.-Dillion Examiner.
The statement that tracklaying on the
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba's ex.
tension to Montana is to be carried on by
electric light is denied, but it is also stat.
ed that the work will be pushed at rate
never equaled for 30 long distance. II
is asserted that 5000 teams and TO-,
600 men will be constantly employed
during the summer not including thous
and or two camp followers of all kinds
and that the line will be completed tc
Helena, by fall.
The Toston Smelling Works are run
ming in full blast The company is con
structing roasting works at their mine
above Radersburg, and the sulphur will
be extracted from the ore there insteat
OF at Toston. They are hauling about 81
tons per day from their mine, portion
Of which is roasted and shipped and the
remainder is shipped raw. At theil
mine, the Heating they have lately erect
ed hoist capable of working to a consid
cradle depth. They are now extracting
ore from the 800 foot level. The ore il
very base, being SO full of sulphur tina
in roasting it burns without fuel ant
loses about 40 per cent of its weight il
the process. Just when the smeltin,
plant will be fired again is indefinite.
Hon. Charles Gibson, president of tn,
Yellowstone Park association, has ap
pointed E. c. Waters, of Billings, gener
al manager of the park hotels. Tht
association has at present five hotels a
the main points of1nterest in the Nation
al park, and will construct this year al
additional hotel building at the falls O
the grand canon of the Yellowston
river, one of the most beautiful spots il
the park. This hotel will cost in tn
neighborhood of 100000 and will b
provided with every modern convenienc
1t will be capable of accommodating 5O
tourists. Another hotel will be built a
the Yellowstone lake. Mr.. Gibson i
looking for big rush of tourists to the
park this year.
Within the next sixty days the broad
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